Mr GIBSON’S GlRLS.—These two Gibson girls appear in “Heroines in Love,” a survey by Mirabel Cecil of women’s magazine romance from the eighteenth century to the present day. The Gibson girl was the ideal beauty, particularly in American magazines, at the turn of the nineteenth century. Charles Dana Gibson’s creations were ladylike but alluring, remote but adorable, with an exaggerated shape—the S-silhoutte—and their graceful heads were topped with a pile of hair, preferably auburn. “Heroines in Love” is published by Michael Joseph.
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Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33816, 12 April 1975, Page 10
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82Mr GIBSON’S GlRLS.—These two Gibson girls appear in “Heroines in Love,” a survey by Mirabel Cecil of women’s magazine romance from the eighteenth century to the present day. The Gibson girl was the ideal beauty, particularly in American magazines, at the turn of the nineteenth century. Charles Dana Gibson’s creations were ladylike but alluring, remote but adorable, with an exaggerated shape—the S-silhoutte—and their graceful heads were topped with a pile of hair, preferably auburn. “Heroines in Love” is published by Michael Joseph. Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33816, 12 April 1975, Page 10
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